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Assistant Director of the Belfer Center Matthew G. Bunn, one of the reports’ three authors, termed the past efforts of the U.S. to monitor nuclear weapons a “somewhat depressing report card...
...Apple IIGS. Late at night, I pine away for the exhilaration of traversing the Oregon Trail or tracking Carmen Sandiego, of creating Print Shop greeting cards on my dot-matrix printer or of using floppy disks that are actually floppy. My parents generously bestowed upon me a flat-screen monitor for my Dell, but despite its exquisite beauty and space-saving qualities, it’s really just a facelift masking an aging starlet who has seen one too many term papers...
Remember WebTV? Microsoft's accountants sure do. The software superpower spent $425 million to buy and promote a system that married the brains of the personal computer with the entertainment value of television, allowing people to surf the Internet and watch Seinfeld on the same monitor. Like a lot of doomed info-age ideas, it had its own buzzword: convergence, a concept that predicted the blurring of boundaries between smart boxes (the PC) and dumb ones (the TV). Problem was, people loved their idiot box just the way it was, idiotic. So the PC stayed in the living room...
...publicize the scale of official corruption? Hanoi chose a middle course. The opening hours of the trial were broadcast live on national television, with Nam Cam shown handcuffed and in striped prison pajamas. (Reporters weren't allowed in the courtroom; they viewed the proceedings on a closed-circuit-television monitor. "That's so they can cut the feed if they need to," one reporter speculated.) The trial itself will not be open to the press, and for good measure, a party official recently warned journalists to report "only what is good for the nation...
...national poll taken by the respected Rajabaht Institute registered a 90% approval rating for the drug war. The average Thai family, apparently, wants the scum off the streets, even if they depart in body bags. (The Prime Minister did say last week that he would appoint a panel to monitor the drug-suppression drive...